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I'm not sure it will be a competitor - apples and oranges. Just like the Neighborhood Electric VEhicles are not really competitors - they are both electrically operated, they both will take a person from one place to another, but that's as far as the comparison goes. Sorta like comparing Vespas with Electrically supplemented bicycles.
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The only way you might say that the Segway has no competitors would be to pull it off the transportation continuum completely and deny that it is a Human Transporter at all. Maybe call it a Electic Personal Assistive Mobility Device? But for Segway Inc the change the product name from HT to EPAMD and redefine the device's primary function from transportation to mobility would be shooting themselves in the foot, or dynamically stabilized wheel as the case may be. Mobility Device sounds to much like a device for the elderly or infirm, which ironically is turning out to be a major market for HTs. But then the competition becomes the Rascal scooter. JohnM Anything worth doing for 2 hours is 10 times more worthwhile if done for 20 hours. RUSA #235 |
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Actually, I don't agree with you John, but you're certainly entitled to your opinion. I don't consider roller skates and bicycles as competitors, although they're both forms of transportation. I'm not saying that the HT has NO competition, however I don't see the i-Swing as competition, given what I know of both units. Just as I don't consider the Q to be "competition" for the HT.
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They have to be sufficiently similar to fill the same niche. So, in some sense, yes, they have to be sufficiently similar. Just as Fords and Dodges are competitors, whereas Fords and Kubotas are not, although they both run on gas and have 4 wheels and are both a form of transportation.
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Your business competition is anyone getting the money that you want. If Segway Inc wants to carve out a niche on the transportation spectrum, any device that overlaps that niche is their competition. As long as cars are being used for trips ideally suited for Segways, that's the target. Segway has seen the reality of the situation. JohnM Anything worth doing for 2 hours is 10 times more worthwhile if done for 20 hours. RUSA #235 |
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Yes, but I'm limited to what I can carry on the HT, and am limited to the distance I can travel. The HT is no competition at all for my car for my shopping trips on Saturday. I have to have a car. I can limit the amount of gas I use weekly via the use of my HT going to and from work, but I will never be able to completely replace my car. At least not in the place I currently live. If I were to live in a major metro area, I might be able to replace the car. But I wouldn't do it with the i-swing.
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"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" doesn't hold true if everyone in the world owns a cat.
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